Norman Pettingill is a true underground cartoonist, known and admired by a small coterie of cartooning connoisseurs, but completely unknown in the wider world. Pettingill was a self-taught artist who, in 1947, created hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings and marketed many of them as postcards. He combined a gift for the fine detail of illustration with the visual exaggeration and outrageous wit of cartooning. This book is the first published retrospective of his work, containing over 100 of his best and rarely seen drawings.